Roadside bomb kills Nato soldiers

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Brig Gen Tim Grant, the head of Canadian forces in Afghanistan, said that soldiers were Canadian.

The attack was the deadliest against foreign troops in Afghanistan since May 13, when seven troops were killed - five Americans, a Canadian and a Briton - when the Chinook helicopter they were riding in crashed in Helmand province.

Officials at the time said it appeared a rocket-propelled grenade might have brought the aircraft down.

Afghan and Nato forces clashed with Taliban militants in Zhari earlier this week, leaving 33 suspected insurgents dead on Tuesday, according to the provincial governor. Seven Afghan police died in a roadside bomb explosion in Zhari on Monday.

The region was the site of one of Nato's largest-ever operations last fall, and remains highly volatile.

Southern Afghanistan has seen fierce fighting in the past several weeks.

More than 2,900 people - mostly militants - have been killed in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan this year, according to an Associated Press tally of numbers provided by Western and Afghan officials.

The new attack brings to at least 102 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year, including at least 46 Americans, 18 Britons and 16 Canadians.

Also in the south, militants battled Afghan and US-led coalition troops in three separate clashes, leaving 20 militants and one policemen dead, officials said.